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Born in 1950. Creator of PIANO SEVEN in 1987. Innumerable European ,American and Asian Tours. Composer for the groups he has created (Piano-Duo Lindemann-SantaMaria, Lindemann Trio, Quintet or Octet), he also played with jazz personalities such as Daniel Humair, Carla Bley, Woody Shaw, Robin Eubanks, Steve Swallow, Longineu Parsons, Erik Truffaz and Tewan Sapsaniakorn. Numerous records and CDs on his own since 1975. Winner of the Grand Prize for Artistic Creation in 1997 He also often composes for contemporary dance companies and theater and is much involved in mixing music from different cultures (especialy from Asia) with his own ensemble.
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Born in Bordeaux in 1953, but adopted by Geneva. Plays or has played with numerous groups and musicians such as Paulo Bellinati, Charlie Rouse, Carlos Ward, , Matthieu Michel, Robin Eubanks, Glenn Ferris, La Sonora, Antano Costa, Schizodie, Frédéric Folmer, Ohad Talmor and the Quintette Popolien (China tour). Directs jazz improvisation and piano workshops at the Geneva AMR. Michel now works on his own compositions for a contemporary jazz-quartet.
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Né à Lausanne en 1972. Diplômé du Conservatoire de Lausanne, il obtient sa virtuosité avec mention dans le même établissement. Il se produit comme accompagnateur de lieder et dans la musique de chambre et il continue sa formation dans l'Institut de Musique éléctro-accoustique de Genève avec le compositeur Rainer Boesch.
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Jean-François Dessibourg
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Né à Lyon (France) en 1961. De formation classique, il s'établit au Brésil pour plusieurs années où il aura l'occasion de se produire et d'enregistrer avec entre autres, Tonhino Horta et Nivaldo Ornelas. De retour en Suisse, il s'oriente vers le jazz avec des musiciens tels que, Erik Truffaz, Maurice Magnoni et le big band de Lausanne avec Adam Nussbaum. Nombreux concerts au Brésil, en Russie, France, Asie et Afrique de l'Ouest avec différents ensembles. Pierre-Luc est à la tête d' un trio piano et d' un trio orgue hammond et enseigne l' improvisation jazz au conservatoire de Lausanne. Il a participé à une trentaine de CD.

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Marc Perrenoud (piano) né en 1981 à Genève. Il Commence le piano à 6 ans, à Zurich.

Il étudie au conservatoire de Genève jusqu'en 2001 et obtient son diplôme (filière performance) en 2006 à l'Ecole de jazz de Lausanne. Dès 2001, il joue avec plusieurs formations jazz à travers toute la Suisse, la France et l'Allemagne, l Argentine et l Egypte. Parallèlement, il gagne plusieurs concours dont le « Montreux jazz Chrysler Award » en 2003, la bourse Friedlwald, Zurich, 2005 ainsi que le prix du meilleur soliste au International jazz Festival Bern 2006 (trio), Patiño 2007.

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Né à Genève le 12 septembre 1976

Fabrizio Chiovetta, pianist Born in Geneva, he studies with Dominique Weber, John Perry and Paul Badura-Skoda and participate in master classes by Gyorgy Sebok, Julian Martin, Yoheved Kaplinsky and Irwin Gage for the Lied. Fellow of the Göhner Foundation with a scholarship in 1999, he is prizewinner of the 2002 New Talents Competition (Genoa, Italy) and the Orpheus competition (Zurich, Switzerland). In 2001 he receives the Prize of the Audience at the Klaviersommer Festival (Cochem, Germany) fir his interpretation of Mozart. He is also an Honorary Mention Award of the Seventh International Web Concert Hall. He gives numerous concerts in Europe, United-States and Canada, participates in many festivals, both in recitals and chamber music, performs as soloist (under Gabor Takacs-Nagy’s notably). He is regularly solicited for radio and television recordings. Flutists Lady Jeanne and Sir James Galway chose Fabrizio Chiovetta as their accompanist for International Flute Seminar Master Classes held in Switzerland. He has recorded works of Honnegger and Ravel and more recently a Schumann CD for the Canadian label Palexa. He also perform with several jazz bands and plays accordion with the Bayan 5tet. Fabrizio Chiovetta currently teaches piano at the Conservatory of Geneva.

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Stéphanie Décaillet was born on February 10, 1978 in Salvan, Valais. She is a winner of the Stresa International Competition for Young Musicians. From 1993 to 1997, Décaillet was a member of the Varga Festival Orchestra and the orchestra of the Tibor Varga School of Music, with which she performed in many concerts in Europe.

From 1997 to 2001, she studied with Patrick Genet at the Conservatory of Geneva and earned, in addition to the "Pierre Fernex" Award and the loan of a violin from the Lalive Foundation, her teaching diploma and first prize for musical virtuosity. In the six months following, she perfected her technique with Ulf Hölscher at the Karlsruhe Hochschule. From 1998 to 2004, Décaillet was a member of the "Soloists of Geneva", an ensemble of varying size, from quintet to octuor. Since 1997, she has been a guest artist, on a regular basis, of the Instrumental Ensemble of Lausanne, directed by Michel Corboz. In 2002, she was selected from among hundreds of candidates to be a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, with which she performed in two European tours under the direction of Franz Welser-Möst and Claudio Abbado. Décaillet has played in various formations (symphony, chamber music and solo) throughout Europe and in Turkey, Kyrgyzstan and Japan.

Décaillet has been a member of The Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne since September 2002.
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Born in 1978 in Geneva, Nicolas Levon Maret studied the vibraphone and percussion at the Music Conservatory of Geneva and in New York. He has played in the largest clubs in New York, with famous musicians such as Candido Camero, Giovanni Hidalgo, Chico Freeman and Jimmy Scott. In Switzerland, he has played with Daniel Humair and has earned several awards: the Swiss Musical Youth Competition, the Marescotti Foundation Grant and the Patiño Foundation Grant. His many travels have led him to Mali, to explore local rhythmic traditions. He is the leader of several formations of various styles (jazz of the Thirties, afro-funk, free jazz, world music). This summer, he played in Geneva with his brother, the harmonicist Gregoire Maret, as well as with Marcus Miller. What's next?
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